Name: The Great Child Of Suen by HERBST9
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Description: Excerpt from the upcoming new HERBST9 release Ušumgal Kalamma

from: The Gods Are Small Birds, But I Am The Falcon!

Herbst9 The laments begin

Herbst9 Nanab Ishtar, Exalted Light Of Heaven

Herbst9 Etemenanki, Foundation Of Heaven And Earth

Herbst9 From Below

from 'Deterrence' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den222
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso]

Ricardo Donoso is a composer, percussionist and electronic musician from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who currently resides in Boston.  After having studied composition at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory he has participated in a slew of projects over the years, most notably playing drums for avant-death metal unit Ehnahre and being one half of the ever morphing electronic duo Perispirit. Ricardo's musical vocabulary draws as much from contemporary composition, drone, to techno and noise.

A year before exploding onto the electronic music scene in 2011with the critically acclaimed Progress Chance, Ricardo Donoso's debut release "Deterrence" was issued as an extremely limited cassette edition - a through-composed ambient piece, "Deterrence" is stripped of all the rhythmic flux which he has become known for. Considered by many in underground circles to be a true masterwork of the Dark Ambient genre, "Deterrence" is often times compared to works by artists such as Lustmord, Biosphere & Deathprod. Denovali is pleased to finally present this much needed reissue, five years from its inception.

It's a fitting time for "Deterrence" to see the light of day, as it lets us explore Donoso's roots as a composer, both musically & thematically. With the simultaneous release of his new opus "Sarava Exu" one can't help but connect the dots from some of the foundations laid out on "Deterrence"; the glacial drones underpinning melodic flourishes on the surface , the patience and pacing of each movement and the use of space, sound design and texture in equal balance with the harmonic and melodic content. 

Although vastly different from the much loved, geometric inspired Digitalis trilogy, "Deterrence" still serves its function of sucking you into its world, guiding the listener through barren landscapes, dreamlike imagery and moments of hopeful yearning then spitting you out on the other side. Like past Donoso releases, it begs to be excavated and explored, revealing more & more of itself upon closer inspection. The motivic cycling chords tumble in-between tape his & location recordings, sometimes appearing inverted, upside down, in reversed order, but always there, present and serving it's function. Melodic content is hinted at on opener "Simulated Charity", becoming fully exposed at the halfway point on a broken down piano on "Prisoner's Dilemma" as feedback swells and guitar drones carry the movement along until the massive crescendo in "Mutual Assured Destruction" gives us some respite, albeit only briefly as the tonal clouds are then drowned by claustrophobic textures, leaving us not with answers, but more questions. While always pushing forward, Donoso' manages to maintain with each release his cinematic grandeur, an elegant narrative arc and a truly singular and dramatic tone. "Deterrence" is a small, yet important window into the one of contemporary electronic music's most unique voices. 

Deterrence

Ricardo Donoso - Mutual Assured Destruction

This track represents our distant dreams. Mostly this track is relaxing and warm, not as much horrific or scary. For me this picture represents this track. Very clouded, but somewhere there is a warm sunset and you sit somewhere by a like or a river while listening to this track and thinking about your distant dreams. Feel free to comment and share and download .

Dark Ambient The Inner Devil - Distant Dreams

Kammarheit - Landfall

Excerpt from the upcoming new HERBST9 release Ušumgal Kalamma

The Great Child Of Suen

Flowers for Bodysnatchers - Fall The Night (EP). Download from BandCamp. 
https://flowersforbodysnatchers.bandcamp.com/album/fall-the-night

Available in 24 bit.

Fall The Night is an EP Inspired by Nathan Hassall's illustrated poetry chapbook, The Flesh and Mortar Prophecy. Nathan Hassall leads the way where few are willing to go, deep into the mind's Dark Sanctuary. All-knowing doctors, schizophrenic demons and apocalyptic visions are all part of the process within the confines of flesh. Once entered, there is no way to unlearn the awakened chimeras of the self.

They Dwell in Factories 

Victim to passion’s redundancy 
men are put away, 
scarred from life’s leash. 

unable to control their beasts 
they weep on their bellies 
obedient and still 
scattered between crumbled walls 
in tattered clothes. 

depraved minds trick themselves 
that sanity is beyond 
the ruin. 

they whimper like padlocked dogs.

Nathan Hassall http://www.nathanhassall.co.uk 

You can purchase The Flesh And The Mortar Prophecy from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1326730193

Fall The Night

They Dwell In Factories

From the album 'Songs Over Ruins' (1997).

Songs Over Ruins II

From the forthcoming album "The Word As Power".

Featuring the voice of Soriah.

The Great Child Of Suen

HERBST9

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